every mention of "lo-fi" in pitchfork record reviews over the last 12 years

I picked my current mobile number purely because it has 555 in the middle of it.

Occasionally when asked for my mobile # I say "Klondike 5" instead but no one ever understands me.

I think folks are wrongly interpreting this as an attack on Pfork when it's really just a pretty cool performance art-y thing

It would be like showing every mention ever of "butthurt" on ILM

somebody please do that

lo-fi Nuggets rock

^^stuff like this bothers me! all the nuggets shit sounds amazing! it was recorded on tape! that's hi-fi, shit like fun. and all that is way more lo-fi

maybe these writers are using lo-fi in the metaphorical sense

http://www.blastfromthepasttv.com/loafy.jpg

"lo-fi Nuggets rock"

this could just mean that it sounds like nuggets stuff but is recorded in a shitty/cheap/etc way. unless they are describing actual nuggets rock. we may never know...

is there such a thing is med-fi, and if so, can we start requiring all music to be it

any recording which does not meet the med-fi specifications will be immediately reshelved from "music" to "noise"

i mean i really hope the guy wrote some kind of elaborate code that pulled up these things w/o much effort, the idea of working for hours upon hours on this is mind-boggling, and i say that as someone who spends hours on trivial 'research' all the time

― some dude, Monday, November 5, 2012 2:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's pretty easy...I happen to have all the Pitchfork data on my computer for a never-completed project and I can just run grep over it.

does that include all the reviews they later deleted?

No, it's just what was up on the site earlier this year.

I demand a release of pitchfork.com's basement sessions

I think you can get it on Soulseek

It would be like showing every mention ever of "butthurt" on ILM

― Clarke B., Monday, November 5, 2012 11:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

somebody please do that

― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Monday, November 5, 2012 11:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would provide ample free booze to the tech wizard that could accomplish such a feat

awaiting my booze

"serious question: are metallica fans the most butthurt fans in existence?"

can't believe people don't understand the power of our search function

I guess I meant seeing it all pretty and with lines and stuff like in the doc Scott's pal made

oh okay Mr Backpedal

I'm a man of my word: white, red, or rose?

white; red is good but it gives my wife migraines

looks like Pitchfork has never used "butthurt"

Hahaha... Italian, French, or Swiss?

I don't think I know Swiss wine! Leaning French but interested in learning

Switzerland produces badass wines. Virtually nobody imports them into the US because (a) they're esoteric, and (b) they're expensive (due to the triple-whammy of their strong currency, the labor required to farm in the Alps, and their lack of a need to export--they drink 99% of what they make). You can PM me on here or find me on FB; I'm sure we share Mr. Raggett as a common pal.

(with your address I mean)

better late than never. a message from zach:

hi! i made the pitchfork index manually using google. it is chronological. it took about 8 hours to complete all told. i think it's funny and telling. i think lo-fi is a ridiculous term & i think music criticism should be challenged creatively -- it may help it perform better. i think we can all agree that music writing is not held to a very high standard. but what if it was actually good? most of all i think it's fun to use a simple principle to make a bunch of material speak in a way that complicates & obfuscates its original meaning. i am not an academic.

here's a couple other pdf books i've made which use similar methodologies: http://osr-tapes.info/osr/ashleysjacket.pdf & http://osr-tapes.info/osr/chomoanalects.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_linguistics

It totally blows my mind how easy and fun corpus lx can be in the google era. (I wasn't posting that to be an asshole)

I don't see what's ridiculous about "lo-fi". (Or "angular" for that matter! I like "angular".)

yeah lo-fi seems like a reasonable term to me. it's weird as a genre because one "lo-fi" band is gonna be diff from another one. but if you're using it in the sense of "home recorded" sure why not.

If you look at the more recent instances, "lo-fi" tends to get paired more with "90's".

lo-fi musicians get pretty prickly about the term ime, i suspect because it's diminutive

And this is what I get when I make a Wordle out of all the lines in that document, eliminating all the mentions of "lo-fi".

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5985718/Lo-Fi

also, being in a huff abt being called "lo-fi" by pitchfork is kind of like when teenagers recoil at their parents' mocking (but not necessarily inaccurate) way of picking up on their subcultural signifiers. like, no one feels cool when their mom says "i remember when /i/ went through my punk phase" and the only way to react to it is "OMG SHUTUP MOM YOU DONT EVEN UGHHHHH"

still giggling about "loafy"

lo-fi musicians get pretty prickly about the term ime, i suspect because it's diminutive

― flopson, Thursday, November 8, 2012 11:16 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not true, imo. I've gone through periods of being a lo-fi musician and I like the term. Dude who made this is completely wrong in saying it is "ridiculous". If he'd said it has become meaningless through over-use he might be onto something.

I've gone through periods of being a lo-fi musician and I like the term.

i have, too, sort of, and wouldn't say i *like* the term but i definitely don't mind it. have found that people who care to have opinions on it tend to be crabby tho

downloading some loafy tracks on the wee fee

They should make a tent covered with these references and put it in a museum.

well when a word becomes meaningless through over-use, its use becomes ridiculous, no?
zp

ah lo-fi
going to see The Babies on Thurs night and wrote the show into a things-to-do article i write weekly and so went to their site and:
The one time side-project between Brooklyn lo-fi luminaries becomes a full-time concern
aw <3